On paper, Teens Empowerment Awareness with Resolutions Incorporated (TEARS, Inc.) is a substance abuse and prevention agency in Phenix City serving adolescents and adults who are addicts, unhoused, or in crisis.
The headquarters lobby, located in a modest house on South Railroad St., looks more like a crowded living room.
TEARS, Inc. is a safe space for the kids who have run away, the veteran who just left the military with nowhere to go, and the man still deciding whether today is the day he wants to get clean. For a few hours at a time, those in need step into a place where the members of staff insist on respect, refuse excuses, but listen harder than anyone has listened to them in years…